Lead server oddness???

[Piyer]

I have two support tickets open for RockyCrater.org, but I thought that I might post here as well to see if the oddness we're noting is unique to our domain or common to the whole of Lead-hosted sites.

We're a role playing club (Dragonriders of Pern, approved by Ms. McCaffrey's agents), so we live or die on our mailing lists. Up until yesterday the biggest complaint I had with mailman was that in the last year it had maybe sent out the monthly password reminders twice, and that it was ignoring the "send digest daily" command in favor of waiting for it to reach XXkb in size before mailing. For the last 24hrs (nearly) no e-mails have been passing through our lists despite Lead having all greens on the network status board. POP e-mail seems to be functioning normally at the moment.

And that brings me to the second item, for the last two weeks or so I've noticed random outages or extreme slowness not otherwise explained here or on the network status board -- granted, I didn't check the latter each and every time. E-mail -- pop and lists -- would go down, come back up, then go down again for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or more. The http and / or mysql servers likewise had random downtime or took forever (defined as a minute or longer to contact on my 56k connection) to load the requested page.

We are not filtering any e-mails through spam assassin. And the mailing lists' -- all 11 of them -- haven't had their settings changed since before they last functioned correctly.

Anybody else having problems like these?

Also, while Lead seems to have a good trackrecord compared to some servers judging by the maintenance, does anyone know how the various servers truly stack up against one another?

[XtremeCarAudio]

personally I hate mailman

if I were you I would set up a differant mailing list software their are plenty out their...

[Piyer]

(<- me)


I'm not totally thrilled with Mailman either, but I'm painfully aware that when it comes to web mastery, I'm a first year apprentice at best. I wouldn't know where to begin in switching to my own program -- shards! I didn't even know that I had an option to Mailman until just now.

Any suggestions?

[glo]

I have been on lead for many months now and have experience very few problems. I did have a time earlier in the week where my mail was down, but other than that, it's been working very well for me.

[salewit]

I have two accounts on Lead and it has been doing pretty well. But lately it has been painfully sluggish. Going to the control panel today was like watching things load on a 300 baud connection. Hope it's just a short fluke.

[Piyer]

I agree, salewit, for most of the last year(+) Lead has been a pleasure to be on, but that's changed of late. And right now the network status board is all greens despite the fact that the MySQL server is down.

[glo]

Spoke too soon. Lead is being a pain today. Extrememly sluggish and my mail keeps timing out, FTP keeps getting blocking calls, etc.

Hoping it's just a minor thing and will be back to norm soon.